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单词 rotor wash
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rotor wash
rotor wash n. turbulence or flow of air, esp. a downdraught, caused by a helicopter rotor.In quot. 1944 figurative; cf. hot air n. 2.
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1944 H. F. Gregory Anything Horse can Do xvii. 177 These things were still untried. And unless they could be accomplished, the whole idea was just so much rotor-wash.
1947 C. S. Jackson & J. Stein Newsroom Dragonfly A long branch of a tree caught the rotor wash, reeled away and then swept back, smashing the copter's tail rotor.
1992 Equinox Aug. 50/2 The rotor wash, flowing down along the vertical cliff face, had caught him in a tornadolike vortex.
2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck iv. 122 As the helicopter moved into a hover overhead, the freezing rotor wash would reach a hundred miles per hour.
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